Is it normal to bite your finger's skin off?

It's been 2 months now, and I cannot stop putting my fingers up to my mouth, and bite the skin off. I mostly do it in exercise, when I did that 117 times in 25 minutes! I have a crisis, help me!

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  • leggs91200

    People tend to bite off hangnails, just one of those human habits.

    You can actually get a tool called a cuticle nipper that removes hangnails. Kind of looks like a small pair of cutting pliers.

    One way out of the habit is the first time you peel on a hangnail too hard and it removes enough skin to hurt for a few hours and bleed a bit. Take that opportunity to ease out of the habit.

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  • paracetamol

    Sounds like ocd

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    • nikkiclaire

      The counting part does but the announcing overrides that for me. I would think an OCD personality would go to get lengths to hide it.

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  • nikkiclaire

    What's not normal is counting to 117 and stopping after 25 minutes.

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  • RoseIsabella

    Nope, it's kinda gnarly, and gross.

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    • McBean

      Gnarly for sure. Might be remotely symptomatic of BPD.

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      • RoseIsabella

        I feel like the above message was supposed to have been posted on a different question. Sometimes that happens around here.

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      • RoseIsabella

        Yeah, that's pretty much what I was hinting at with regard to personality disorders. Borderline personality disorder is highly stigmatized, and often misunderstood. Another name for BPD is EID, or Emotional Intensity disorder. With medication, and proper therapy the prognosis is not necessarily hopeless, but unfortunately BPD has a bad reputation. The premier cognitive behavioral therapy for BPD/EID is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, also known as DBT.

        It's not something that just pops up like schizophrenia, and medication alone will not keep it in check like Bipolar disorder. Proper therapy is imperative for sufferers of BPD.

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        • nikkiclaire

          BPD is stigmatized because people suffering from this are antisocial, aggressive and generally unbearable to be around and they do it on purpose (albeit due to the illness).

          It has impulsivity and obsessiveness and someone who announces to people a count of how many times it's to seperate themselves from the norm.

          My brother suffers from this and I can't tolerate it.

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          • RoseIsabella

            https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/borderline-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20370237

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            • nikkiclaire

              Not sure why you sent that hun???

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